And it is so simple … You will instantly find how to live.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kun Mandir Ma – Robin Sharma
March 14, 2024.
My mum and dad flies for JFK, USA. A total of approx. 26 hours flight including 5 hours of layover in Doha, Qatar.
This is their first-ever experience taking on an airplane. This is their first time ever experiencing anti-gravity thrust force.
Finally, I’ll get to see them in-person after almost 2.5 years since I’ve been here.
And that is why, I am flying to Connecticut tomorrow at 2200 PDT.
Today, I also saw my twin brother cry in-front of me. It’s been a while since I saw him cry the last time. He missed being home with our parents and our beloved pet. I requested him to make something out of the vacuum; out of this fresh cut, the warm despair because I know — our body adapts to the situations it is presented with overtime. We often fail to feel how it felt when we were in profound pain the last time. Again, memory is a weird element.
I also saw my aunt (Rita) cry. She was saying that she’ll miss mom terribly; She considers my mum her immediate guardian, her fun friend, her refuge, her respite.
I reassured her that I’m with her. We all are with her and things are unpacking for the better.
There’s always something that’s going for each one of us.
So is the life of Lynn.
I met her on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco on March 02, 2023. I was heading home after having visited my sister for a week.
Listening to Lynn’s story; sharing some of mine; laughing on surprisingly few overlaps between her life and mine throughout that 5 hours plus long flight is something I will cherish for the rest of my natural life.
She was a charm.
A light, free soul.
Witty.
A treat to be with, … befriend with.
Despite.
I can’t imagine walking on her shoe!
She’s been through so much in her life and when she quoted, “Life’s too short to not enjoy life.” it made all sense where she was coming from. The scent of unadulterated gratification, the vibe of sheer optimism, the grit of humble warrior; She owned that maxim.
I wish her speedy recovery, tons and tons many happy memories with her near and dear ones.
I’d like her to know that in those few hours I had spent with her — she has painted my life with a permanent brushstroke of always being grateful for this one life I have.
Plus, I will forever envy her spellbinding sense of humor that made the dull day all the more lit and merrier. I love her!
Can’t stress enough her simple message, “Enjoy life!”
I came to a party called ‘Life’ — alone. I’ve made peace with the thought that I would leave from here — a.l.o.n.e.
Despite…
Dear Haters, don’t fool yourself into believing that I will be a leftover of this party. Do not presuppose I’ll be alone on my own
only because you have seen me eat at restaurants — alone;
only because you have eyeballed as I cried over my griefs, my sorrows — alone;
only because you’ve heard me celebrate my tidbits of happiness — alone.
My adaptation with lonesomeness. Don’t mistake it for my weakness.
Matter of fact, to be able to befriend lonesomeness and continue the stride forward is my lethal weapon that I’ve wielded over time and tides; It is why I’ve thick skin on me — mostly from the scars you people left with your disgusting, unforgiving, sinful claws.
Matter of fact, I survived from the worst of situations and fought a lone-wolf battle in the skulk of foxes.
All thanks to you, I am able to take a stand for myself.
Thanks to you for the deliberate isolation you perpetrated.
Thanks to you for a peaceful solitude you’ve bestowed me with.
We are never prepared for everything that would happen to us and everything that would not.
~ Musicpervs
David Kushner – Daylight
The spot I’m in, right very now is not new to me. I’ve lived on edges before. I’ve been in uncomfortable situations before. Well, it won’t be wrong to say that this time I feel I have got thick skin to be afraid of outcomes that are out of my hands; to have fear out of expectancies.
But, It is also not that I wouldn’t love to feast on plenty of wholesome notes that’d help me keep my mind straight, focused, resilient, unafraid, undeterred. I’ve consolidated some of them for you as well. Have a wonderful day
What they did to you was not your fault.
You make the world a better place.
Keep shining bright, for the world needs your light.
I hope you know how loved you are.
There are no mistakes, only lessons…
Don’t forget why you started.
Happiness isn’t out there, it lies within you ..
Life is too short to spend it battling with yourself…
Whatever you’re going through right now, trust me, it will get better.
You didn’t change.., you evolved.
You are a perfect being 🙂
Just in case anyone hasn’t told you today. YOU MATTER 🙂
You still haven’t met all the people who are going to love you.
Someone out there feels better because you exist 🙂
Congratulations for all the silent Battles you’ve overcome 🙂
You still have plenty of time to figure things out …
Trust your Intuition …
The Universe made you uncomfortable so that you could grow ..
Go for it. Rejection you will forget, but a missed opportunity, you may regret forever …
Keep on shining your light, the world needs it 🙂
You already have everything you need …
Love the process, Without knowing the outcome 🙂
What if it worked out better than you ever expected?
Regardless of what’s happening, the world is beautiful … just like you are!
“The questions you ask yourself will largely determine the answers you get.
Why am I not successful?” You’ll get answers that berate you.
How can I succeed here?” You’ll get answers that push you.
Be deliberate in the questions you ask yourself.”
Julie Gurner
Let Her Go x Husn (Gravero Mashup) | Anuv Jain
Matter of fact, looking at all the people I have seen succeed in their life; And carefully weighing on things that work/ed for them — I truly believe the sincerity, seriousness and substances of questions make up a common denominator among them.
Questions we ask today, will shape things we do this moment.
Questions become our path. Questions lead us to the path.
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca
Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth
An uncle died this week. Purshottam Shrestha.
Took me back to one of those dark places. Again.
A place where tomorrow is not promised.
A place where the best you can say; a place where the wise thing to acknowledge is that no matter how brutal the day was — you still had the day regardless.
With the news, came the wave of ‘Urgencies’ rushing to the shore.
There’s no better time than today.
There’s no best day than this day.
Pritchett wisely put it,
Make your move before you’re ready!
I tell you where big dreams go to die.
They go to the Planning Place.
Getting ready place.
Ahh..
Preparing myself .. and it’s the biggest con job we work on ourselves.
There are so many bones in that Graveyard where people … It’s always something; There’s always going to be set of reasons to wait.
When you’re going to take the risk?
I hope my drive and aspirations are stagnant, static, saturated and still.
I hope I keep believing that life barely is a synchronous series of episodes and events but rather an open, white, empty canvas with welcoming un-expected brush stokes from no one but ourselves. Looking for ways to write it’s own meaning albeit not necessarily only the meaningful ones necessarily. But ephemerally. But, writing it anyway.
I hope I get tired but complain less.
I hope the man in me keeps believing, keeps saying, keeps encouraging me to live the best version of my life!
Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
Anonymous
Prateek Kuhad – Mulaqat
The Asch Experiment, in order words A group conformity Experiment.
In this experiment, a volunteer is told that he/she is taking part in a visual perception test. What s/he doesn’t know is that the other participants are actors and s/he is the only person taking part in the real test, which is about Group Conformity.
In the due course of the test, the volunteer along with other actors are shown series of line lengths on cardboards. Each cardboards has one right answer among many other options. In each round, the actors deliberately give wrong answers unanimously until eventually the subject doubts his/her own perception of things and rather choose to go along with the group perception instead.
This experiment has been repeated so many times, and the results have been consistent again and again, and again.
In a nutshell, we, by nature tend to bend towards crowd conformity despite the reality/ truth of the matter.
Now that you’ve read thus far, I hope this wealth of knowledge and wisdom sets in your deep conscience for anytime to grab whenever you find yourself rhyming with mob’d dead brain. I hope this small article aspire you to grow to be an original thinker.
